| [blinki-dev] 1st steps - touch'n base |
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Hi All,
I'm excited to finally be able to put some energy
into the Blinki project. I realize the project
has been idle for quite sometime. That is behind us now and we are moving
forward. Before sharing a couple of details about upcoming Blinki activities I
would like to reflect for a moment on the growing interest in mobile web
and in general the rapid recognition of the role HTML5 and the smartphone
browser are playing in changing mobile use patterns. A few cool major
developments include:
- Google announcing that mobile web is at the heart
of its mobile strategy
- adoption of the WebKit engine continues to grow
as more and more smartphones in the dev pipeline are announcing plans to ship
with it
- growing disillusionment with the AppStore; Google
claims the AppStores are temporary (Do you agree?)
Ok enough reflection. So what's up with Blinki you
may ask?
The first bit of news is we are preparing to OSS
our WebKit4SWT codebase next week. We had hoped to do this well before now
but had a couple of murphy's law incidences that have held us
up. While I have worked with and followed Eclipse closely since its
initial OSS, I have not been through the IP process. So this will be a learning
process for the team and me. I'll post more details as we get that codebase
ready for the IP process.
The second development is mobile web framework
research that Greg Amerson and I are conducting. So far we have been working
with PhoneGap to get 1st hand knowledge of its strengths and weaknesses. We plan
to look at several other similar frameworks as background research for Blinki.
We will be sharing our findings as they become available. If you have experience
with any of the PhoneGap-like frameworks we welcome you input.
Wayne
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